Babalon Launching
A scholarly essay on the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons.
Secret Earths
A catalog essay on the contemporary reframing of animism, from an art show devoted to rare earth elements.
Archive Fever
My latest Arthur column, on MP3 mania
Technomancer: PKD
An overview of Philip K. Dick written back in the day
Let There Be Q
A look at the spiritual ad campaign for Motorola's hip new handheld
Game Over: the Mutation of Pinball
A brief history of the evolution and decline of one of the twentieth centurys liveliest machines.
The Joy of Sticks
A review of Van Burnham's fascinating Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age, 1971-1984.
The Soft Machine
An alchemical Deleuzian ode to a kiddie goop toy called Gak; perhaps my maddest piece.
Mars Gone Wild
Millions of amateur astronomers have pored over pictures of the Red Planet. Experience the thrill of discovery - or self-delusion - for yourself!
Forging the Dragonslayer
Futuristic cyber-mettalurgy meets the ancient alchemical art of the forge.
It's a Mud, Mud, Mud, Mud World
Anthropological notes from a summer of MUD addiction, circa 1993.
Space 1994
A media-saturated essay of the curious conjunction of the comet-Jupiter collision with the twenty-fifth anniversary of Apollo 11.
Barbed Wired Net
Dispatches from the Net in the days following the destruction of the Albert Murrah Federal Building in 1995.
Into the Myst
A look at the classic computer game and its religious and mythic underpinnings.
Remains of the Deities
An essay on the roots and literature of modern Neopaganism.
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